Comments on: Coming Out of Silent Mode

By: Elena

Elena — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:12:47 +0000

Congratulations from far far far away… Valencia (Spain). Excellent idea. I’ve already posted it to my blog. I wonder if this is only for the US market/students/teachers…I think it’d be a total blast here in Spain (or in South America) too. Is there any way to test it? CONGRATS, again.

By: Marcos Salazar

Marcos Salazar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:59:10 +0000

Congrats! I just watched all the videos and it looks like a great idea! Can’t wait until it officially gets off the ground!

By: Jeremy Browne

Jeremy Browne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:07:07 +0000

Intriguing. I just emailed Jeff with a few questions on how I could become involved. I’ve always wanted to produce something like David Williams’ online text on qualitative inquiry, but it wouldn’t count on the tenure track.

Having a publisher willing to stand behind the project may solve that issue. Rather than stating in my dossier that I’m writing a free-online textbook, it would say I am writing a textbook for “Flat World Knowledge Publishing.

By: Mark Surman

Mark Surman — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:24:30 +0000

Congrats! Amazing! The world needs this! My only bitterness is not having a title as cool as Chief Openness Officer (although my title is pretty groovy).

By: Jethro

Jethro — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:05:25 +0000

Sweet! Considering that I have spend almost $2000 on books in the last year, this would be wonderful.

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:22:45 +0000

I’ve written my own “textbooks” for both the classes I teach since 2005, and this idea is powerfully intriguing. It also reminds me of a presentation by Jason Cole early last year on authoring open content like open software: http://tinyurl.com/5v7zkf

By: Mark Horner

Mark Horner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:48:43 +0000

Hey David

Truly wicked! I’ll be following along closely!

Mark